PyCFunction_New is part of the Stable ABI (see bpo-21354), but it is not declared as PyAPI_FUNC, and thus not exported with GCC's -fvisibility=hidden. To match Windows, it should be declared. (I don't think this has any real impact, I just want to fix it before enabling automatic tests on such issues.)

Oh, it's not listed by Doc/data/stable_abi.dat and so not checked by Tools/scripts/stable_abi.py. It's implemented explicitly as a function only for the stable ABI: PyObject * PyCFunction_New(PyMethodDef *ml, PyObject *self) { return PyCFunction_NewEx(ml, self, NULL); } So yeah, it should be exported. By the way, I would suggest to move "#define PyCFunction_New(ML, SELF) PyCFunction_NewEx((ML), (SELF), NULL)" to Include/cpython/methodobject.h to clarify that the limited C API should call "PyCFunction_New()" and not call "PyCFunction_NewEx()".

> By the way, I would suggest to move "#define PyCFunction_New(ML, SELF) PyCFunction_NewEx((ML), (SELF), NULL)" to Include/cpython/methodobject.h OK, I'll add that move to the PR. > Oh, it's not listed by Doc/data/stable_abi.dat and so not checked by Tools/scripts/stable_abi.py. I'm planning to rework this for PEP 652 (which is how I found the issue in the first place), so I'll not add it there now.

> By the way, I would suggest to move "#define PyCFunction_New(ML, SELF) PyCFunction_NewEx((ML), (SELF), NULL)" to Include/cpython/methodobject.h Wait no, I wrote too soon. PyCFunction_NewEx is part of the limited API as well, even though it's undocumented. People can call it.

>> PyCFunction_NewEx is part of the limited API as well, even though it's undocumented. People can call it. > >Wait no, I wrote too soon. >PyCFunction_NewEx is part of the limited API as well, even though it's >undocumented. People can call it. Find some 3rd user calling this function in: https://searchcode.com/?q=PyCFunction_NewEx+. So I prefer to keep it too. If calling `PyCFunction_New()` is better than `PyCFunction_NewEx()`, MAYBE we can add some description info in PR 24551.

 New changeset 7bb1cafa4e3d648669212ea4c6d11d6eafc6da23 by Petr Viktorin in branch 'master': bpo-43239: Export PyCFunction_New with PyAPI_FUNC (GH-24551) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7bb1cafa4e3d648669212ea4c6d11d6eafc6da23 

It seems to me that this issue can be closed as fixed. Do you have further PR's for this, Petr?